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Studio Ghibli’s latest film takes place in the suburbs of modern day Tokyo, where 12-year-old Sho rests up in his grandmother’s house in preparation for his operation. However, he soon becomes aware of a small family of little people known as borrowers and takes a shine to 14-year-old Arrietty, who is desperate to prove to her father that she is a worthy borrower. However the humans are not to know that borrowers exist and through Arrietty’s...

A UK trailer for Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty has surfaced, which includes a rhyming narration!
Inspired by Mary Norton’s The Borrowers, the film tells of Arrietty, a very tiny 14-year-old girl who lives with her mother and father in an old house. They strive to remain out of sight, while “borrowing” things that humans wouldn’t miss. One day a human boy, the 12-year-old Sho, accidentally sees Arrietty, and the two soon develop a friendship.
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The highly anticipated new release from Studio Ghibli, Arrietty, is set to have a different dub cast to the North American release. Arrietty, loosely based off the popular children’s book The Borrowers by Mary Norton, was released in Japan last year with a strong and positive audience response.
As many anime fans are aware, usually when watching anime in English, it is almost always dubbed by Americans. For Arrietty to have a US and UK dub cast,...